Project Seahorse’s new study highlights the value of community science for seahorse monitoring and conservation
“Harnessing Community Science for Seahorse Population Monitoring: Insights from the iSeahorse Program in Tampa Bay” was published in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. The study showcases the important role of community science in monitoring seahorse populations to support conservation efforts.
Citizen scientists contribute vital information about 35 seahorse species: their geographic ranges, habitats, and pregnancy seasonality
Thanks to diligent observers, seahorses, those enigmatic and charismatic fish, are not only being discovered in new habitats and expanded geographic ranges, they are also being found at new ocean depths. While their capacity for male pregnancy has long fascinated people, new information on sex ratio and pregnancy seasonality has been discovered by, well, you. […]
New FCRR: Comprehensive review of advances in life history knowledge for 35 seahorse species, drawn from community science
In this Fisheries Centre Research Report the authors have undertaken the task of synthesizing and analyzing data contributed to the iSeahorse community science project.
Global seahorse conservation platform celebrates citizen science milestone
Dennis Rabeling’s observation of the short-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) species, was citizen community science platform iSeahorse’s 10,000th observation.